The Meaning Of Friendship

HAVE YOU HEARD?

March 06, 2000|by ELIZABETH BARTOLAI (A free-lance story for The Morning Call)

Friends are reaching out to Lynn and Heidelberg Township Zoning and Sewage Enforcement Officer Kenneth A. Bleiler and his wife Shirley J. Lutz. The couple suffered smoke inhalation in a Feb. 6 fire at their home along Mill Creek Road in Maxatawny Township, but managed to get out with their dog. The couple is living in a temporary trailer near the fire scene.

In the meantime, friends of Bleiler and Lutz have set up a fund to help the couple with expenses.

Lynn Township Secretary/Treasurer Dawn Straughn said many friends and co-workers want to help them.

"He knows a lot of people and everybody is very concerned," Straughn said. "There was absolutely nothing left."

Investigators are finished checking the scene of the fire, but Kutztown Fire Chief Robert Hauck said no cause or point of origin for the fire has been determined yet. Hauck is working with Trooper Michael J. Yeity, a state police fire investigator with the Reading barracks, on the probe.